 "Nostalgic Music" | 2009-05-20 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2PRF1V8D03T0N |
| This sound that is on this Cd,has such nostalgic value to those over 40 yrs old.For some of us,there was a sound in the 50',60',70's,that was what used to be referred to as "elavator music".But for me personally,epecially since I am a musician;I find this style of music quite enjoyable.It makes me think of days gone by,and sceneries in my mind that may have never existed in the real world,but in the mind they bring comfort when I hear this type of music.Maybe it's a place,that we all wish existed.Here's a perfect example:On the tv show from the 60's,I Dream of Jeannie,the show was based on NASA,down at Kennedy Space Center in Cocoa Beach,Fl.Of course it wasn't filmed there,but the neighborhood and city areas that are shown on the show,look like the ideal place to live.But in reality,Cocoa beach doesn't even come close to looking like that.I've been there several times,and it doesn't resemble the tv show's Cocoa beach at all.But due to this type of music,being in relation to that time period,it's easy to live out thoughts in your mind of how you wish things could be,when you hear this great nostalgic music from yesteryear. |
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| "Space age" | 2009-02-18 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3PX6O5X55B3E5 |
| Fast delivery, good price and an extremely good product. I'm very satisfied with my purchase. Great Space Age Bachelor Pad music. |
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| "Yeah, I know. It's a different spelling. But it's still funny. Right? C'mon!!" | 2008-05-06 |
| - Reviewed By mlibman |
While I appreciate the lyrical turn of the given title, this music doesn't suggest bachelorhood to me. In my head, this music conjures up my most covert anti-progressive domestic fantasies: I come home from work, weary from another day of saving babies. You greet me at the door in your apron. The house greets me with fragrances of a brisket that has been slow-cooking all day. The girls, pigtailed and dressed in pink, twirl around in excitement. The boy also twirls in, also dressed in pink, and I demoralize him verbally for it. I slide into my comfy chair as the dog rushes over, carrying in his mouth my special five-foot quad-chamber bong, a bag of ice, a fresh Sufentanil patch, a jug of vinyl ether and the herbal vaporizer. I am self-satisfied, uncircumcised, and I laze in the shadow of my colossal carbon-footprint mushroom-cloud as those first brassy bleats of "Sentimental Journey" take hold.
Sorry, that took a turn I didn't expect. The point is, this is a good collection. I like Esquivel's sound. It works as kitschy background music for those lounging moments, but it has an intelligence and inventiveness to it that is worth listening to for more than just the nostalgic. I am a sucker for those "pow," "zu-zu" choral vocals, xylophones, glissandi, and I love when he bounces the sounds from speaker to speaker. It's a nice early-stereo technique that I had been taught Pink Floyd invented. Now I'm wondering what else I learned from Guzik that isn't true. But that's my problem.
Another CD I recommend, with a similar vibe, but a compilation of various artists, is "Music for a Bachelor's Den." It's not quite as good, a touch too gentle and plush for my taste, but still worth a listen. That one also has a track by the legendary Dick Hyman. I'm a big fan of Dick Hyman, just as I am a fan of anyone whose name can stand alone as an imperative sentence. If only my stupid parents had given me a verb and an object for a name. But, no, they had to saddle me with a couple proper nouns.
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| "Mucha Esquivel!" | 2007-01-03 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2L0VYBM7QFZDQ |
| I was introduced to Esquivel from the movie Nacho Libre and the song Mucha Muchacha. That song is on here and I love it! But it also has music that is fun, original, inventive and way out of the ordinary. I like putting it on in the car and wigging out my teenage daughter and her friends! |
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 "Wild, crazy, campy, a great retro listen" | 2005-10-15 |
| - Reviewed By timothyfarrell22 |
| There are two types of lounge music - the more laid back and dull orchestra kind (Jackie Gleason's work falls into that category) and the more surrealistic and wild space age stuff that holds up surprisingly well today as an entertaining listen (Esquivel falls into the latter category). Sorry for that run-on sentence, but its the best way I am able to describe the genre of lounge music. Esquivel's work is, along with Raymond Scott, space-age pop's true artistic statement. He had a sense of humor, which is apparent in his compositions. His music is truly out of this world - it sounds like nothing else in the lounge genre, or in any other genre all together. Most of all, despite the surrealism, this is probably the most accessible music in the space-age pop genre. Its great dancing music, and the only flaw is that it doesn't hold up as well on repeated listens. It certainly swings, and this is a must-have for any interested in the lounge genre. |
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| "Whatchamacallit, Esquivel?" | 2005-04-24 |
| - Reviewed By clayface9 |
| After years of obscurity, Juan Garcia Esquivel finally received some recognition in the 1990s. Esquivel was a bandleader who played adult instrumental pop in the '50s and '60s. His music is more interesting than most other instrumental pop, because he used unusual instruments and had wild arrangements, many of which took full advantage of stereo seperation. This is the first CD of his music that was ever released. It is a great sampler of some of his best recordings. Give it a listen. |
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